Twelve English Statesmen
QUEEN ELIZABETH
QUEEN ELIZABETH
BY
EDWARD SPENCER BEESLY
Sine ira et studio, quorum causas procul habeo.
Tacitus, Ann. I. 1.
London
MACMILLAN AND CO., Limited
NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1906
All rights reserved
First Edition printed February 1892.
Reprinted March 1892; 1895; 1897; 1900; 1903; 1906.
CONTENTS
| [CHAPTER I] | |
|---|---|
| PAGE | |
| Early Life, 1533-1558 | [1] |
| [CHAPTER II] | |
| The Change of Religion, 1559 | [6] |
| [CHAPTER III] | |
| Foreign Relations, 1559-1563 | [18] |
| [CHAPTER IV] | |
| Elizabeth and Mary Stuart, 1559-1568 | [38] |
| [CHAPTER V] | |
| Aristocratic Plots, 1568-1572 | [78] |
| [CHAPTER VI] | |
| Foreign Affairs, 1572-1583 | [101] |
| [CHAPTER VII] | |
| The Papal Attack, 1570-1583 | [128] |
| [CHAPTER VIII] | |
| Protectorate of the Netherlands, 1584-1586 | [156] |
| [CHAPTER IX] | |
| Execution of the Queen of Scots: 1584-1587 | [174] |
| [CHAPTER X] | |
| War with Spain, 1587-1603 | [188] |
| [CHAPTER XI] | |
| Domestic Affairs, 1588-1601 | [211] |
| [CHAPTER XII] | |
| Last Years and Death, 1601-1603 | [230] |
| [APPENDIX] | |
| [A.—]Sessions of Parliament in the Reign of Elizabeth | [243] |
| [B.—]Principal Howards Contemporaries of Elizabeth | [244] |
| [C.—]Principal Boleyn Relations of Elizabeth | [245] |